Showing posts with label Haiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haiti. Show all posts
Jan 31, 2010
3 Americans detained in Haiti
Jan 31, 2010
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Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to take 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. The Baptist church members from Idaho called it a “Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission,” meant to save abandoned children from the chaos following Haiti’s earthquake.
Jan 28, 2010
Haiti needs cash
Jan 28, 2010
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Former President Bill Clinton - his penchant for public speaking unbowed - called Thursday for more help for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, telling the World Economic Forum that the country is determined to escape its troubled past.
Jan 26, 2010
Tharoor vsits haiti
Jan 26, 2010
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Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, a former United Nations under-secretary general, made an unscheduled visit to quake-hit Haiti over the weekend, meeting with the survivors of the calamity, the Indian peacekeepers as well as the Caribbean nation's President, Rene Garcia Preval at his makeshift home.
Jan 22, 2010
Haiti hit by another aftershock
Jan 22, 2010
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Haiti, already devastated by a earthquake last week, was hit by an aftershock measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale at 7.54 am (1254 GMT) on Friday. The epicentre of the aftershock was reported by the US Geological Survey to be 25 km north-west of the capital Port-au-Prince. According to the Geological Survey, aftershocks from the magnitude 7 earthquake January 12 would likely continue for months or even years.
Jan 21, 2010
Earthquake strikes Haiti again
Jan 21, 2010
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A powerful new earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking rubble from damaged buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country’s capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake.The magnitude-6.1 temblor was the largest aftershock yet to the Jan. 12 quake. The extent of additional damage or injuries was not immediately clear.
Jan 19, 2010
Military airdrops supplies into Haiti
Jan 19, 2010
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The U.S. military has airdropped water and food into Haiti after earlier ruling out such a delivery method as too risky.Maj. Tanya Bradsher, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Southern Command, said an Air Force C-17 flying out of Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, on Monday dropped 14,500 MREs, or Meals Ready to Eat, and 15,000 litres of water into a secured area 5 miles (8 kilometres) northeast of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
$575 million aid for Haiti : EU
The European Union has pledged over euro 400 million ($575 million) to help the needy in Haiti and help rebuild the country from the rubble of last week’s earthquake.
Jan 18, 2010
UN chief Ban Ki-moon visits Haiti
Jan 18, 2010
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon vowed to stand behind the Haitian people as he visited the quake- devastated country and termed the catastrophe a "tsunami-like disaster".
Touring the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Sunday, UN Secretary-General Ban assured the disaster-hit people that "help is already arriving".
Jan 17, 2010
Haiti aid flow grows; feuds over reaching victims
Jan 17, 2010
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Hungry, haggard survivors clamoured — and sometimes fought — for food and water on Saturday as donors squabbled over how to get aid into Haiti and rescuers waged an increasingly improbable battle to free the dying before they become the dead.
Clinton, Bush call for long-term help for Haiti
Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton called on Americans Saturday to dig deep in their pockets for desperately poor Haiti, not just in the coming weeks, but for its long-term recovery after a devastating earthquake.
The two presidents sketched out their vision for a more prosperous and healthy Haitian future than the poor Caribbean nation has ever known.
Jan 16, 2010
Haiti earthquake claims 1,40,000 lives
Jan 16, 2010
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Around 1,40,000 people are estimated to have died in the massive earthquake that hit Haiti.
The Haitian government has said that while 40,000 people have been buried, at least a hundred thousand are still under the rubble.
The Haitian government has said that while 40,000 people have been buried, at least a hundred thousand are still under the rubble.
Twitter helps raise millions for Haiti
The Haitian earthquake on January 12 may be one of the worst in the last several decades in terms of the number of people killed, but it may also go down in history as a natural calamity where social networking played a vital role in the rescue and relief efforts. In less than 24 hours of the earthquake, Twitter and Facebook helped raise millions for the homeless and the injured people of Haiti.
India announces $5 million aid for quake-hit Haiti
Manmohan Singh on Friday announced a five million-US dollar assistance to quake-ravaged Haiti towards relief measures.
"India stands by the government and people of Haiti in their hour of need. We would like to make an immediate cash donation of US five million dollars as a token of our solidarity with the people of Haiti," Singh said.
Jan 15, 2010
Major influx of US troops under way in Haiti
Jan 15, 2010
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Some 800 infantry soldiers and a Navy aircraft carrier are bound for Haiti to aid the massive relief effort under way, the first major influx of U.S. troops since the catastrophe struck.
Red Cross : 50,000 dead in Haiti quake
The Red Cross Estimates there have been 45,000-50,000 deaths in the Haitian earthquake. Spokesman Jean-Luc Martinage says the Haitian Red Cross came up with the estimate based on information from a wide network of volunteers across the quake-stricken capital of Port-au-Prince.
Jan 13, 2010
China: State media says eight Chinese killed in Haiti
Jan 13, 2010
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An official Chinese newspaper says eight Chinese peacekeepers were killed in the earthquake that struck Haiti and that 10 others were missing.
The China Daily newspaper reported online on Wednesday that the figures on the Chinese casualties came from Liu Xiangyang, the vice-president of the China National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Team.
Haiti’s capital shattered by 7.0-quake
Dazed and injured Haitians sat on darkened streets pleading for help on Wednesday and untold numbers were trapped in tonnes of rubble brought down by the strongest earthquake to hit this poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years.
The extent of destruction from Tuesday afternoon’s 7.0-magnitude tremor was far from clear — and estimating the number of casualties was impossible, save for the dead lying among thousands of collapsed buildings in Haiti’s capital.
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